11 Jul 2013

Language Death

 Language Death, by Orooo on deviantart.com


Is English just a language like any other? 

I don't think so: rather, it seems to me that English is a kind of monstrous metalanguage. Even we might think of it as a kind of voracious black hole into which other tongues collapse and die, leaving behind a few words like seeds, which will blossom as part of an ever-expanding global English or übertongue.

And this is why English-speakers are notoriously monolingual: for they already speak every other language under the sun
  

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